Leadership Skills Your Team Can Use Tomorrow

Leading a Veterinary Team Toward Its Best Future

The choices that you make today can change your future. How you lead, the daily actions you take, the conversations you have, and the process you use to support others as they achieve success will shape and determine your future. Leadership of your team is a great responsibility and also an incredible opportunity.

You have the ability to affect the future for an entire organization and everyone who is part of it, as well as the clients and pets that are served by it. Leadership is not a gift, an art, or a character trait. It is a set of tools, processes, and habits that you use to create the future you want for yourself, and the practice. Choose now how you will prepare, how you will spend your time, what you will improve, and what impact you want to have on others.

Leading Change in Your Veterinary Practice

Change is hard.

Most organizations and teams don’t do it very well, and often change takes longer and achieves far less impact than we imagined when we first envisioned it. And yet, our ability to effectively change the behaviors of others often becomes the defining factor between wild success and turbulent mediocrity.

Most veterinary practices aren’t built to change, they are built to provide excellent patient care. Most managers work to drive change rather than cultivate it, and most people resist it rather than embracing it. When it doesn’t appear to be happening fast enough or consistently enough, we get more aggressive about incentives or consequences, which leads to temporary movement but unsustainable shifts in behavior.

The results are in and we are doing change wrong.

This workshop is about us building a better plan. A plan based on how human behavior change actually happens, rather than how we think it should happen. It will help you think differently about organizing, preparing for, and leading effective, sustainable change. It will help you fully engage teams that tackle change in ways that create lasting impact, not temporary shifts.

Your future, and the future of your practice is directly connected to your process for leading human change. This workshop will help you build a system that works.

The Keys To Employee Engagement and Meetings That Matter

Leadership isn’t easy. We know that employee engagement drives profitability, productivity, efficiency, and even a lower level of stress in the workplace. The question becomes, how can leaders improve employee engagement while also leading a significant amount of change in a fast paced, chaotic veterinary profession?

In this session we will explore the components of employee engagement and the tools for actively increasing it during times of rapid change in your practice. We will also explore the components of effective meetings in your practice and how to conduct them so that they improve engagement, decrease resistance to change and become far more productive.

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Moving Others Toward Their Best Work

How you coach people in your practice is, well, everything. The interactions we have with people on our team either cause them to be more successful, or less so.

In this session we will explore effective coaching and mentoring as a tool in our practice and work with some real world scenarios as we use a coaching process that helps our team become consistently more successful and more accountable.

Creating Growth Plans for Your Practice

Sometimes growth just happens, we are in the right place at the right time and more people want and need the services we provide. That kind of growth can actually create more stress and chaos than growth which we planned for, organized, and systematically pursued.

This workshop is about making choices for the growth of your practice, deciding what actions need to be taken to cause that growth, and then preparing and executing a growth plan that gets us where we want to go.

Proactive growth feels very different from reactive growth. Deciding where we put our time, energy and other resources and being ahead of the curve, rather than chasing it, means that growth feels smoother, more productive, easier on our team and better for our business.

Leading Yourself and Others in Challenging Times

There is no question your days are now filled with new ways of working and new levels of anxiety, ambiguity and unpredictability. There is always some of that in veterinary medicine, but this is clearly a new kind of chaos. It requires us to lead ourselves and others on our pet care team at a higher level, with more focus and consistency. 

Good leaders are even more important during times of increased challenge and they can be the difference between just surviving the mess, and learning, growing, and succeeding as we face the challenges together. Your practice, the pets, the clients, all count on you being at your best, even during the chaos that comes with today’s difficult situation. This session will help you learn to thrive in spite of challenges and lead those around us as they too pursue excellence in the midst of extreme difficulty.

Thriving as a Leader in the Veterinary Profession

Every day you come to work in the veterinary profession to make a difference in the lives of animals. Sometimes, that can feel more like solving the same problems over and over or putting out fires and herding cats.

In this session, Randy will help you approach leadership in a way that allows you to thrive in your management role, not just survive it. You will explore leadership tools and techniques that create a more engaged, more productive and more accountable team as you continue to build your expertise as a leader of people. You will examine some of the latest research findings around human motivation and employee engagement and consider new habits and patterns that enable leaders in the veterinary profession to create a better and more fulfilling life as they lead teams of high performing people.

Learn to more fully enjoy your leadership role and go home each day knowing your team is growing and improving and your care and service are even more exceptional.